Monthly Archives: May 2011
Remembering What Happened
Commemorating and remembering September 11 is a challenge for historians all over the world. To create a website to capture and seize the day is no small obstacle. Usually we wouldn’t want to remember a day that killed many Americans. … Continue reading
Final exam study guide
The final exam study guide can be found here. I will be taking questions in class Wednesday of this week (5/18), but feel free to ask me questions outside of class ahead of then. Your only assignment for 5/18 is … Continue reading
Remembering the day.
When 50 academic and public historians, archivists, librarians, and directors and staff members of museums and historical societies in NY and NJ gathered together to try and figure out what would be the best way to historically collect and represent the significance … Continue reading
Queens-The Melting Pot Borough
In 1992, my dad,aunt and three of my uncles and their families moved to the United States from Nigeria to pursue their separate careers and escape . They all settled in Rosedale, Queens in different apartments. They moved here in … Continue reading
Sweet Sweet T&T “Oh How I love up meh country”
Saying goodbye to a land called home can not be easy. The desperation for seeking a better life and broadening your opportunities. Many people left countries for religious persecutions, famines, jobs opportunities, and alike my family had the same intentions … Continue reading
Dreams come true!
I think my history of immigration to the United States was more positive and carefree. It was devoid of any religious prosecution or political reasons. Originally i am from Belarus. It is as small country near Ukraine, Poland and Russia. … Continue reading
For What its worth vs. Where is the Love?
When I read this assignment, my mind instantly jumped to two specific songs. For the protest song pertaining to issues during the 1960’s, I chose the song “For what its worth” by Buffalo Springfield which is a song my father … Continue reading
My family: An Immigration Story
When people ask me what my nationality is, I always struggle to find a quick appropriate response. Initially I respond by saying I was born in California, but my mother is from Mexico City and my father is from Boston, Massachusetts. The … Continue reading
Visiting History with Histories
The Museum of Modern Arts is itself a very historic museum that contains modernistic art – whether paintings, sculptures, drawings, letters, or photographs. MoMA was first created by John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller in 1928. As any … Continue reading
bye bye ecuador
My great grandmother, grandma, and sisters immigrated to New York from Quito Ecuador around the time period of the 1960’s. My grandma was around 20 years old. Binder (p4) states that “Women predominated in this immigration stream, as they did in … Continue reading